Question: What sovereign state did Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea take place in?
Paraphrase: Which country or countries were the setting of the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"?
SPARQL (Wikidata):  select distinct ?obj where { wd:Q183565 wdt:P840 ?obj . ?obj wdt:P31 wd:Q3624078 } 
Answer: India, Norway, France